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‘By that time I had learned he was Estonian by birth, dedicated strongly to his faith, and apparently had quite a reputation in the modern classical world.’

‘The then 34-year-old lost all contact with his Estonian family and spent five fruitless decades searching for them.’

‘He's a nice guy and we chatted for nearly two hours about his work, my work, Tarantino's work and the work of Arvo Part, an Estonian composer.’

‘Recently the judiciary committee of the Estonian parliament was compelled to state that it would be impossible to vote on a treaty that was ‘neither authentic nor complete’.’

noun

1A native or inhabitant of Estonia, or a person of Estonian descent.

‘Finns had a more positive attitude toward it than Estonians and Russians did.’

‘Many Estonians and Latvians see their Russian neighbors as colonizers whose loyalties are uncertain and whose presence in such large numbers threatens the political security and ethnic identity of their nations.’

‘In August 1989 two million Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians formed a human chain that stretched north from Vilnius to Tallinn.’

‘The immigrants were seen as occupiers and colonists, and relations between Estonians and Russians are still strained.’

‘I am an Estonian, I am a mother, I am a grandmother.’

‘The British, the Swedes and the Estonians agree.’

‘We talk to Finns, Estonians and various other Europeans.’

‘Being a second generation Estonian, I would like to point out that Estonians had the same atrocities committed against them.’

‘Now, travel is common, with many Estonians visiting the close-by Scandinavian countries or Germany.’

‘Fortunately, Lithuanians - as well as Estonians and Latvians - understood this game.’

‘‘I am really looking forward to the Irish event,’ said the 28-year-old Estonian.’

‘As with many other European groups, Estonians have colorful regional costumes that immigrants sometimes brought with them, but these are worn only on special occasions, such as ethnic celebrations or festivals.’

‘Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians suffered as others had before them.’

‘At this time native Estonians and Latvians were beginning to settle in the towns, and from this new class there emerged nationalist and revolutionary groups.’

‘Four groups of people lived peacefully side-by-side, Estonians, Russians, German and Jews.’

‘Only 33 per cent of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians think membership ‘is a good thing’.’

2mass nounThe Finno-Ugric language of Estonia, which is closely related to Finnish and is spoken by about a million people.

‘In the 1970s and the 1980s, many of Billy Graham's books were translated into Estonian, even without any hope of publishing them officially.’

‘Always impressed by the great distance eels are fated to swim, I wondered where Eastern European eels go for breeding season, so I pull out an old encyclopedia, in Estonian.’

‘Before they could interview the people involved properly, the police had to find language experts who could translate between Estonian, Lithuanian and English.’

‘Deterred by the prospect of finding interpreters who could deal with such combinations as Portuguese to Estonian or Finnish to Slovene, Brussels ruled new translators only need to render documents into English, French and German.’